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New comment by namuol in "Operation: Epic Furious"

namuol — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:04:21 +0000

Okay it’s now explicitly marked as flagged at least

New comment by namuol in "Operation: Epic Furious"

namuol — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Is this post shadow-flagged or something? It’s off the front page.

New comment by namuol in "Operation: Epic Furious"

namuol — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:53:43 +0000

Oil prices going up is “good” for petrol states who aren’t blocked.

But yeah fair callout about Israel.

New comment by namuol in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"

namuol — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:21:10 +0000

Sure. You know what Putin did the last time oil prices were this high?

New comment by namuol in "I am worried about Bun"

namuol — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:17:13 +0000

I see the word “enshittify” being thrown around casually about Claude Code. We’re far from that part of the Enshittification cycle still. This is just a mismanaged product and the result of an extremely competitive market that moves too fast.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence, etc.

New comment by namuol in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

namuol — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:34:27 +0000

A bold claim to suggest that LLMs aren’t prone to biases of their own which are less understood.

New comment by namuol in "Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools"

namuol — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:08:54 +0000

> The registry grows with use. Every session is smarter than the last.

This feels a bit like one of those “now you have two problems” solutions. After a few dozen sessions I would expect the tool registry to be full of “noise” for most prompts. I would also expect most tools to be extremely specific to the task at hand, leading to redundancy and ultimately poor programmability due to inconsistencies between tool APIs.

New comment by namuol in "Clay PCB Tutorial"

namuol — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:09:45 +0000

https://youtu.be/edERx4x5eY0

https://mitxela.com/projects/soldering_wlcsp

New comment by namuol in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

namuol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:43:48 +0000

> sample solutions from the model with certain temperature and truncation configurations, then fine-tune on those samples with standard supervised fine-tuning

It’s all moonspeak to me. I tried reading other comments that explain this and they all sounded different or contradictory. I’ve studied ML as a hobby years ago but this was before the LLM explosion. Guess I need to start over again?

New comment by namuol in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

namuol — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:05:44 +0000

Apropos to nothing, PC Builder Simulator on Steam costs $19.99 USD and it requires a Windows machine with just 4GB RAM and a GPU with 2GB.

New comment by namuol in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

namuol — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:35:40 +0000

These LLM prompting tip articles write themselves if you just take the last decade of project management articles and replace “IC” with “agent”.

New comment by namuol in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:32:12 +0000

The timing of the release and the phrasing used in the headline: Woof.

New comment by namuol in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:30:48 +0000

It’s high time for regime change in the US.

New comment by namuol in "PCB Tracer"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:25:56 +0000

Hey wait, maybe you are my (our?) mom after all! Sure seems like it anyway. You seem to think you’re old enough to be.

Do you just not have any other ways of insulting people, or are you confused about the difference between age and maturity?

New comment by namuol in "PCB Tracer"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:16:52 +0000

I support baseline browsers unless it’s not feasible otherwise. Sometimes things just aren’t possible in certain browsers. It’s expensive and difficult to design and implement things that fail gracefully. I’m not actually spiteful towards Firefox or its users; I _am_ spiteful toward other developers who feel they are entitled to leaving hostile comments for free hobby projects that don’t support their browser of choice for frankly technical reasons.

I was being facetious for rhetorical purposes. The OP I was replying to was unfairly hostile. I will also hazard a guess that they don’t have much experience writing sophisticated software for browsers.

I responded with the same sort of hostility to make my point that you’re not going to win “hearts and minds” for your cause by insulting developers for relying on browser standards that aren’t yet baseline. My point is that I am not persuaded by hostility, and I suspect other developers aren’t either. Users like this give their browser of choice a bad reputation when they make it part of their hostile identity.

New comment by namuol in "PCB Tracer"

namuol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:37:13 +0000

(I am not the app author, just a sympathizer)

I didn’t realize spite for users was a good reason for me to not bother with Firefox support in my web apps, thank you for enlightening me

New comment by namuol in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

namuol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:11:19 +0000

That’s still $100B unaccounted for, and I’m pretty sure Amazon would expect fair treatment if other investors get a bailout. More likely, OpenAI is the one to receive the bailout, likely at the behest of the bigger investors, Amazon included.

New comment by namuol in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

namuol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:02:52 +0000

Hard not to hear the word “bailout” in my head when I see this many billions being tossed around.

New comment by namuol in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

namuol — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:28:17 +0000

> To the extent that it's just for fun, it's not an advance.

The features which are being exploited to implement this are indeed advances.

> If I didn't like a language and people offered an even worse to use replacement I'd be justified in having distaste for it!

You’re missing my point. Nobody is actually suggesting replacing JS with CSS, but many new CSS features eliminate the need to use JS to accomplish what you need in terms of behavior or style. Nobody is seriously suggesting CSS is a _replacement_ for JS, it’s just a better solution for certain common things on the web.

New comment by namuol in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

namuol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:40:08 +0000

Nobody cared when I taught my roulette wheel to vibe code :/